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The III additional district sessions court on Saturday sentenced an official to two years imprisonment for accepting bribe in 2010 case. Lokayuktha SP M Narayan said G Puttaswamy, FDA attached to government hospital Nanjangud was caught red-handed while taking bribe from complainant S Prakash. Puttaswamy had demanded Prakash, who was running a canteen at the hospital, to pay him Rs 7000 every month to allow him to run the canteen.

With a view to checking increasing number of suicides by inmates inside jails in Uttar Pradesh, jail administration will profile the tendencies of prisoners who had committed the act in past few years and study their family background to prevent such incidents.

A jail inmate allegedly committed suicide by hanging self in the bathroom of central jail on Monday afternoon.

In some good news for jailbirds who wanted to talk to their near and dear ones, the state-run BSNL installed a wireless coin box telephone on the premises of Nagpur Central Jail recently. The move came following a plea at Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court filed by Bombay bomb blasts accused, demanding coin-operated telephone boxes across all prisons in Maharashtra.

Not paying hotel bill on official and forcing his sub-ordinate to bear the expanses tour proved to be costly for deputy secretary of jail department of Madhya Pradesh as he was booked by Lokayukta police under sections of prevention of corruption act on Tuesday.

Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra was remanded in jail custody for 14 days. He will be remanded in Alipore jail.

Facing the problem of friends and acquaintance of some inmates bringing drugs for them inside the prisoners, the jail authorities have written letter to higher officials not to allow them to meet prisoners at the jail.

Originally scheduled to be fully completed in 2011, six of the 20 blocks of the Colvale jail are now expected to be completed and handed over the inspector general of prisons by December 15. Sources in the Goa state infrastructure development corporation (GSIDC), which is overseeing the construction of the jail, said that while six blocks will be ready for commissioning by December 15, the entire project will be fully ready by March 2015.

State-run MY Hospital will have a separate jail ward within a month, if all goes well. Three months after the demand to have a separate ward for jail inmates, inspector general (IG) police, Vipin Maheshwari on Monday visited the hospital and discussed security aspects and other arrangement with the hospital superintendent.

More skeletons tumble out of cupboard as crime branch probe into rampant use of cell-phones by inmates at Indore Central Jail delves deeper. Ongoing investigations have revealed that cell-phones were being used by jailbirds not only to connect with contacts within India, but also to frequently stay in touch with people abroad.

A day after being arrested by police for molesting two 10-year old girls on the premises of famous Khajrana Temple, priest of one of the temple on the premises was send to jail till November 25 by local court in Indore on Monday.

A day after being arrested by police for molesting two 10-year old girls on the premises of famous Khajrana Temple, priest of one of the temple on the premises was send to jail till November 25 by local court in Indore on Monday.

A day after being arrested by police for molesting two 10-year old girls on the premises of famous Khajrana Temple, priest of one of the temple on the premises was send to jail till November 25 by local court in Indore on Monday.

A day after being arrested by police for molesting two 10-year old girls on the premises of famous Khajrana Temple, priest of one of the temple on the premises was send to jail till November 25 by local court in Indore on Monday.

A day after being arrested by police for molesting two 10-year old girls on the premises of famous Khajrana Temple, priest of one of the temple on the premises was send to jail till November 25 by local court in Indore on Monday.